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Cover Me Impressed

With a focus on the 60's-90's music scene, CMI is a Paradiso for Lovers Cover Songs! Each post focuses on a particular song and provides its original and most popular recordings as well as covers versions. Patrons of CMI vote on the most deserving cover version, which will then live to compete again, battling other cover songs in a future post.

Tune du Jour: “Mellow Mood” -Bob Marley & The Wailers

THE CLASH of Cover Tunes: Julie Crochetiere vs. The Pietasters vs. Playing for Change

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The Original

Bob Marley & The Wailers:

THE CLASH of Cover Tunes

Julie Crochetiere vs. The Pietasters vs. Playing for Change

Julie Crochetiere:

The Pietasters:

Playing for Change:

Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire and connect the world through music. This video features Mermans Mosengo and Jason Tamba performing Bob Marley’s “Mellow Mood.” It was filmed live outside while taking a break from recording their new Afro Fiesta Studio Album,

SPACE

Oh the disharmony! Much like Harlan County there are no neutrals here. It is your solemn responsibility to decide which cover song prevails. In other words … Which Side Are You On?!!?

I like all three versions and as the day wore on each one was in the lead for my vote at one time or another. Ended up going with Playing for Change. I found the stripped down, extemporaneous effort heartfelt and endearing.

None of these 3 covers strays too far from the original. They’re all good. Thus, all 4 version kinda sound pretty similar. I definitely like the acoustic feel of Playing for Change. But I’m going to go with The Pietasters for 2 reasons: They speed up the tempo a little bit, which I liked, and they impressed me that a group of white suburbanites from the DC-Metro area could sound so authentically Jamaican (to my ears, at least).